I just installed DeadRat (RedHat) Linux 9 so I could do some LAMP development (Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl-PHP). I'm trying in the next 6-9 months to move all my data processing and analysis work off of Windows to UNIX.

First, MySQL wouldn't run.Then I updated the RPMsThis has now broken httpd (Apache)

Fire me an e-mail ND, I can offer some assistance with your RPM dependency hell, and/or other distributions.

BSD is an alternative, but not mature enough (In my opinion) for the desktop. On the server however, it is top notch. It isn't as bleeding edge as Linux and doesn't have the hardware support.

First off, dump RedHat, RPM is an inferior package format to the "apt" system that Debian(http://www.debian.org) has to offer. I seriously recommend giving Debian a shot. The apt-get system will handle ALL your dependency issues, and installing mysql is as easy or as hard as you want to make it.

I write drivers under Linux, doing all my assembler programming, it is a top-notch OS, don't give up!

SLACKWARE......for me!Haven't tried SuSe. but the filesystem on my Slack8.0 box looks identical to my Sun Sparc's Solaris2.6. RH and off-shoots like Mandrake just seemed like more stuff to re-learn.Demetri

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"Religion is a neurobiological illness and Orthodoxy is its cure." - Fr. John S. Romanides

I remember the distribution disk sets...do they still have those? It's been 3 years since I had slackware on my box. I had a SLOWlaris box on my old sunstation but it has since broken down.

Bobby

I'm too lazy (with dialup) to download new updates so I just buy a Cd off Ebay for about 8 bucks and yes, the old distro disk sets are still here (I started at 3.2 - telling my age). I think there is RPM support now, however. But then you've got install path issues with RH packages. Hint, always wait for the x.1 version. I always jump on a new x.0 and then patch, patch, patch. But it's not as bad as a Gates-box.

Demetri

Just gave my old Sparc20 away (new owner will discover love/hate relationships), but kept my old SS10 just for "fun". Man, I AM sick....

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"Religion is a neurobiological illness and Orthodoxy is its cure." - Fr. John S. Romanides

You win. I passed up on the pile of DEC Alphas in the hall at CMU that said "free" two years ago. My wife said," Beowulf, Steppenwolf, I don't care WHAT kind of cluster you can make with them!."Demetri

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"Religion is a neurobiological illness and Orthodoxy is its cure." - Fr. John S. Romanides

wrestled with CUPS for a day (I have a MFC-8300 printer, not exactly PostScript)All compiles went without a hitch - CUPS 1.4, Apache 1.3, MySQL 4.0, PHP 4.3.3, Perl 5.8.0, GIMP 1.3 (although I had to struggle with CUPS' and Apache's configuration a bit) - gotta love the ports collection!

...compiling OpenOffice now...

Actually, I'm quite pleased so far with FreeBSD's use as a desktop machine (using KDE3). Less flaky than any Linux I have used...

Thanks for letting me vent on matters non-Orthodox.

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There ain't a horse that can't be rode, and there ain't a rider that can't be throwed.

I'm currently giving myself a few nightmares running Linux in a virtual machine courtesy of VMware. Everything is fine until I try to make changes to X configuration. Then the mouse gets borked and turns into a device which only scrolls up and right no matter which way you move it. Since you learn the most when things go wrong I seem destined to gain much new knowledge over the next few weeks.